Chelsea FC

I've always like chelsea since the days of Zola and Flo (dwarf and giant). Although at that time, there were a lot of foreign talents and not really much of local english talents I like the interesting characters such as the 2 mentioned soccer players.
Gianfranco Zola who is like less than 1.6m, really makes his presence felt.In early 2003, Gianfranco Zola was voted as the best ever player of the team by the Chelsea fans. Whenever I see zola and flo play in the match i would be thinking abt the dwarf and the giant in the same team and playing together so well ha. There were also players like Di matteo, Dutch goalkeeper Ed de Goey, Nigerian defender Celestine Babayaro, dennis wise and defender graeume le saux. I remember the time when Ruud Gullit who was then a Dutch midfielder from Sampdoria who joined chelsea in 1995... and a year later became the Chelsea manager. Well, at least he made history by being the first foreign manager to win the FA cup in the 96-97 season when Chelsea beat boro 2-0. However, there was a dispute b/n the board of directors over transfer funds and thus he was sacked.
Italian striker Gianluca Vialli took over as player-manager and quickly established himself by winning two major competitions - the League Cup and the Cup Winners Cup. Well, as a Chelsea fan i really think there is an interesting history going on. 2 player managers taking over the club in a row and yet they did well in the league so far. However, vialli was sacked in 2000 when he guided chelsea to a FA cup win. And in came Claudio Ranieri the tinkerman....
Ranieri 's biggest achievement was to guide chelsea to the runners-up pos after Arsenal in the league. Despite this, Ranieri was sacked by the club's new owner Roman Abramovich - who had already ploughed almost £300million into the club. His successor was Jose Mourinho, who had just quit as coach of Portugese champions FC Porto despite winning the European Cup.
Well, the champions league first leg of the last 16 is coming soon and I really hope chelsea to at least snatch a draw from this difficult against barcelona. Mourinho has lost key players like wayne bridge and Robben through injuries and has to make do with some key players still having injuries like duff and Gallas who are doubtful to start and should be on the bench. This match would be a victory for Chelsea if they were to overcome the attacking prowess of Samuel Eto'o, Deco and Ronaldinho by snatching a draw in my opinion due to the current injury crisis in the squad... Well for Chelsea fans let's cheer them on!
And one thing which i think Chelsea lacks is world star players like Ronaldinho or Shevchenko who i think could strengthen the attacking power. Well, at least I am impress with the fact that we do not have any best players in Europe in the team but yet doing so well in the league.